Glass High School - Crest Yearbook (Lynchburg, VA)

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honor of Irving Gelding who drew 8's constantly for forty-eight hours in an attempt to become proficient in the forming of this figure. If you constantly doodle big circles with arrows sticking into them, you either love someone with a very bloated heart or are sick of elephant jokes. The drawing of stick figures indicates obesity and the desire to reduce. A few individuals find themselves shaping gigantic idiocities such as S-O-S or H-E-L-P in places like Arctic snow or desert sand. They are bluntly indicating to the world that they cannot rely upon themselves in personal crisis and must depend upon others when they have a problem. Other students have been known to fill up entire pages with large X's. This shows that they are thinking about their Latin test that day. Finally, if you enjoy drawing picturesque Bavarian castles situated on cliffs over- looking the deep flowing Rhine, your name is probably Jack Sutor. So you see that there are many types of doodling all meaningful and enjoyable. It is still a shame though that so many people missed this story because they were too busy doodling to listen. Down Dark Chasms Down dark chasms Wlzere the lights are green, Deep among the waters Dwell the things unseen. Around smooth corners They roll and glide, Fleeing, golden shafts . lVhere the sunbeams ride. A 'worm winds wayward In the cold still brine,- Ufuer coral fans creeps Its thin scaly line. Then our upon the ocean floor A sea weed flo-ws Brushing 'bout the fishes As the current comes and goes. I --LINDANNE HAWKINS, '64. THE CRITIC Q

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About nine o'clock people began to arrive. It seemed as if everyone from around the Whole county was at the auction by noon. The poorest and the richest were here to see if they could make a fortune by luck. The very first item, a bread box, was sold easily, a fair price was paid and the excited buyer tore into his object as though it were full of gold. After ripping it to shreds, the ex- cited buyer found five dollars at- tached to the shelf of the container. At the sight of the green five dollar bill, the crowd went mad. An old mattress, which seemed a likely place to hide a fortune was sold for 25300 while the 'bed frame which had a loose post on it was sold for a similar amount. An old churn, a cedar chest, and a useless feed bin were all sold at fabulous prices. By the end of the day everything had been sold includ- ing the barn, house, and other build- ings. Poor people had spent their last dollars to buy small objects of no use. Old people spent their life savings on junk and the town mayor had bought a worthless old farm. The total sum of money found in all that junk was twenty-five dollars and in an effort to get at lNflillstead's fortune, the 'bidders had torn up the products they had bought. Pk Ik PF Dusk fell once more as two shad- ows strolled down a dusty road to- wards Elks Run. Stacy, I didn't know there was 325,000 in that whole town, grinned Hank. Well, there ain't anymore, re- turned Stacy. They both broke into laughter and leaped into the air and then sprinted down the road. Doodling JOHN WVHEELER, '66 A RE you a doodler? Of course you are. All of us at one time or another find ourselves doodling when we are bored, while riding in a car, waiting for church to start, or just sitting in class. Recently under the auspices of the National Geographic Society I made an extensive study of this subject. By extensive I mean that I sat down by myself and doodled for five minutes. Here for the first time in print are the results of my research. Doodling, I found, is two thousand per cent more prevalent in the United States than in the Soviet Union. The fact that Russians must have their doodles okayed by their local commissar probably explains this. Following is the most complete explanation of the primary types of American doodling available today. The all-time favorite doodle is the figure S. When you find your- self drawing 8's, you either are contemplating the eternal verities, should be doing your math homework, or, like me, are very unartistic and cannot draw anything else. This type of doodling is called Gelding doodling in 8 THE cnrrrc

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A VISIT WITH A GUN SMITH CAROLYN GILLS, '64 0 NE of the leading gunsmiths in the country today, Nlr. Hacker Martin, lives on VVreck Island Creek, outside of Concord, Virginia. He is one of the few people still making old timeyn guns and is known throughout the United States for the quality of his work. He was born and raised on a farm near Jonesboro, Tennessee, and it was in the blacksmith shops of his grandfathers that he first became in- terested in metal working and gun- smithing. Today he is an expert in his field and his guns are prized possessions of collectors. lN1r. Nlartin has been a farmer and a miller, and it has only been in re- .10 cent years that he has devoted all his attention to working on guns. In 1951 he and his wife bought Wreck Island lVlill and came to Virginia from Tennessee. About 1956 he closed the mill and since, has been a full time gunsmith. His shop, com- posed of two cluttered rooms, is on the second floor of the mill. Here he turns out the beautiful guns which have made him famous. Mr. Martin said it was only na- tural that he should become interest- ed in guns because in the area where he was raised, Everybody most had a gun. lNIr. lVIartin is tall, has white hair, and a moustache. He laughed and THE CRITIC